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The informal economy has grown considerably in Zimbabwe due to the extended economic and political crisis in the …. Consequently, Zimbabwe introduced the presumptive tax in 2005 which has been gradually extended to increasing classes of informal … pay tax regardless of whether they do not earn any income. This paper interrogates the design of Zimbabwe`s presumptive …
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Not only has the shadow economy obviously been growing much more rapidly than the official economy in the Western industrialised countries, it also appears to have a growth cycle of its own, running counter to the official economy's growth cycle. This raises a number of important questions for...
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This paper evaluates the relative importance of labor productivity vs. income taxes and social security contributions for tax compliance in an economy with a large degree of informality. To this end, we build a bargaining model in which matched employer-employee pairs of heterogeneous productive...
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The underground economy crucially affects growth and unemployment in both developed and developing countries. Nevertheless, this widespread phenomenon does not appear in the basic model for macroeconomic analysis, namely the Aggregate Demand-Aggregate Supply (or simply AD-AS) model. Therefore,...
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